Mom shaved 7-year-old daughter’s head and said she had cancer, police say. She didn’t

Oklahoma authorities say Jamie Kaye Parker ran a con by telling people her daughter had cancer and raising money for her medical bills. The girl didn’t have cancer, authorities say. Grady County Law Enforcement Center

Oklahoma authorities say Jamie Kaye Parker ran a con by telling people her daughter had cancer and raising money for her medical bills. The girl didn’t have cancer, authorities say. Grady County Law Enforcement Center

Dozens of people donated money to Jamie Kaye Parker to help pay her daughter’s medical expenses when she told them she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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He said Parker not only led strangers to believe her daughter was sick, she convinced her daughter that she had cancer - and even shaved her head.

“To put your daughter in that state of mind that she has a disease that could kill her, that she may die in the future, in the very near future? I think that’s almost the ultimate child abuse,” Weir told KOCO.

Parker has been in trouble before. In 2016 she was convicted of stealing $2,000 from a local wrestling team’s booster club, Weir told KFOR.

“She said she didn’t do this so much for the money, but she said when she was convicted of the embezzlement for the sports team, that everybody turned their back on her and hated her and when they found out her daughter had cancer they started befriending her again,” the sheriff told KFOR.

Melissa Barton, who faked having cancer in order to receive donations, is sentenced to 18 months in prison.